See, I think this is an understated thing in most TLs. I just read a book about the Civil War and the author makes the argument that even by 1863 in OTL, slavery was really wounded by the simple fact that slaves ran away to the Union forces everywhere, in huge numbers. Granted, peace will help reduce these areas (I doubt the North will get to keep New Orleans for example) but still. Thousands of slaves will escape to a North that, while not being an enlightened racial utopia, certainly isn't going to send them back. Is slavery really tenable in such a circumstance?
It was wounded by slaves going North yes. It was wounded by some being effectively free inside parts of the South where order had broken down.
And, it was wounded due to the CSA impressing increasing numbers of slaves for non-combat military roles to support their armies.
The final wound before the end of the war came when they were trying to get farmers to emancipate their slaves for combat once that was allowed.
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